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Photos of the week: Aug. 4-11

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Messages and flowers line Heather Heyer Way in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Friday, Aug. 10, 2018. (WTOP/Max Smith)

The National Zoo said goodbye to Alex the tortoise, who lived to be around 100. (Courtesy National Zoo)

The zoo called Darwin an "educational ambassador for his species" for his work in highlighting emu nature and behavior to visitors, keepers and scientists. (Photo Credit: Jessie Cohen, Smithsonian’s National Zoo) — Darwin, an elderly male emu at Smithsonian’s National Zoo in D.C. that had arrived in 1997, was humanely euthanized last week. The zoo called Darwin an “educational ambassador for his species” for his work in highlighting emu nature and behavior to visitors, keepers and scientists. (Photo Credit: Jessie Cohen, Smithsonian’s National Zoo)

Purple Line construction is now well underway in Montgomery County, and neighbors can expect some significant impacts over the next four years. “We are cheek to jowl next to neighborhoods for pretty much the entire length of the project,” the spokesman for the major construction project says. (Courtesy Purple Line Transit Partners)

One of two of the horses that were wandering around at a Prince George's County fire station Sunday morning. (Courtesy Prince George's County Fire) — One of two of the horses that were wandering around at a Prince George’s County fire station Sunday morning. (Courtesy Prince George’s County Fire)

A group of gun rights advocates counter-protested the March on the NRA. (WTOP/Melissa Howell) — In the latest demonstration against gun violence following the deadly Florida shooting, protesters shut down a portion of Waples Mill Road outside the NRA’s Fairfax, Virginia, headquarters on Saturday, Aug. 4, 2018. (WTOP/Melissa Howell)

A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on Richmond‘s famed Monument Avenue has been vandalized. (AP)

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Plans are in the works at Antietam National Battlefield to improve the historical experience for its 330,000 annual visitors, including changes that could take up to a decade to implement. (AP)

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Rally-goers and organizers on Sunday, Aug. 5, 2018, expressed concern about what led up to the fatal encounter between Robert Lawrence White, who was unarmed, and a Montgomery County police officer. (WTOP/Liz Anderson)

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Messages and flowers line Heather Heyer Way in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Friday, Aug. 10, 2018. (WTOP/Max Smith)

The National Zoo said goodbye to Alex the tortoise, who lived to be around 100. (Courtesy National Zoo)

The zoo called Darwin an "educational ambassador for his species" for his work in highlighting emu nature and behavior to visitors, keepers and scientists. (Photo Credit: Jessie Cohen, Smithsonian’s National Zoo)

One of two of the horses that were wandering around at a Prince George's County fire station Sunday morning. (Courtesy Prince George's County Fire)

A group of gun rights advocates counter-protested the March on the NRA. (WTOP/Melissa Howell)

Rally-goers and organizers on Sunday, Aug. 5, 2018, expressed concern about what led up to the fatal encounter between Robert Lawrence White, who was unarmed, and a Montgomery County police officer. (WTOP/Liz Anderson)

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